Half-Life: Source

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We have updated the public release of Half-Life: Source. This update contains all the changes from the recent beta, thanks to the whole community for their help with testing and suggesting new features.

Changes in this update are:

Fixed crash when fighting the Apache helicopter

Added in drowning sound effects when drowning

Fixed glock to have 17 bullets per clip to match the original Half-Life

We have updated the public release of Half-Life: Source. This update contains all the changes from the recent beta, thanks to the whole community for their help with testing and suggesting new features.

Changes in this update are:

Converted Half-Life:Source to the new SteamPipe content system, for optimized delivery of the game

Added support for Linux and Mac OS X operating systems

Added an optional HD pack, you can enable this via the Video tab in the Options menu

We have released a Beta update for Half-Life: Source. Changes in this update are:

Added ability to run with the Half-Life 1 HD content pack. Go to the video options dialog and select "Load HD content if available" to enable this option. This HD content pack was adapted from the original Half-Life version by A. [Stone] Denisov.

Fixed skyboxes not showing correctly on Xen

Fixed muzzle flash from gunfire not showing

Fixed Nihilanth being very hard to kill

Fixed Alien Grunt armor not being taken into account during fights

Fixed Apache health amount to match Half-Life 1

Fixed map logic bug in c1a3 controlling the 2 sentry guns

Fixed flashlight rendering incorrectly when shone onto chrome object

Note - if you have a problem launching the current public release of Half-Life: Source then please opt into this beta

In support of the Steam for Linux release we have made Half-Life: Source available on Linux and Mac OS X.

This beta involves significant changes for all platforms and your testing is appreciated, please report any bugs to our GitHub page.

Linux and OS X users can simply install the Half-Life: Source application to access the beta. You MUST also opt into the Beta version of Half-Life 2 when testing on Linux and OSX, you can do this by right clicking the game in your Library, choose properties and then go to the Beta tab. Select the SteamPipe beta to start testing.

For Windows users right click the game in your Library, choose properties and then go to the Beta tab. Select the SteamPipe beta to start testing. Under windows to opt out of testing simply deselect the beta option on this same page.